Payments

We will continue to deduct any relevant cross-compliance penalties, replacement cattle tags, EID portion of new cattle tags, gamma testing (if imported over 30 animals/year), AI service, Export Health Certificate production, BVD lab testing charges and annual flat rate charge for Cattle Passport Service (postal users only). From April 2018 we started to deduct any BVD penalties from the payment.

Payment tranche dates will remain 50% July, 25% October and a balancing payment in the following April.

From 01 April 2015, payments for Agricultural Development Scheme (previously known as the Countryside Care Scheme) will be calculated as follows.

We continue the transition towards flat rate payments:

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

% of Historic Entitlement due to be paid

80

60

40

20

0

% of Flat Rate due to be paid

20

40

60

80

100

As stated in the March 2013 edition of the Agri-News, the budget is subject to an 8% reduction over 2013-2015. The budget reduction for 2015 has now reached 8%.

From 2015 onwards, the flat rate is fixed, enabling a budget to be created for the 'Food Strategy'. All payments will be reduced by a percentage – this will then be redistributed across the first defined acres* (see table below); which will have the effect of increasing the payments to smaller and/or more intensive farms.

Table 1: Payments will be calculated from Scheme year 2015 as follows:

Scheme Year

Historic Entitlement Payment %

Flat Rate Area Payment

Front Loading Supplement(per acre)

BML £ per acre(assuming 2015 target flat rate of £78.20)

AML £ per acre(1/6 of BML)

*First 130 acres

*Next 65 acres

2015

60%

£31.28 (40%)

£5.21

£3.00

£1.50

2016

40%

£46.92 (60%)

£7.82

£6.00

£3.00

2017

20%

£62.56 (80%)

£10.43

£9.00

£4.50

2018 onwards

0%

£78.20 (100%)

£13.03

£12.00

£6.00

Please note: in future years, these figures may vary depending on scheme budget and total claimed acreage.